On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Em Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:12:32 -0500 > Rob Herring <robherring2@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > >> On 10/23/2013 08:22 AM, Doug Anderson wrote: >> > As discussed in the ARM kernel summit, people on the devicetree list >> > would no longer like to receive emails about all dts changes. Remove >> > from MAINTAINERS. >> >> We need to make sure platform maintainers are copied though. That may be >> hard since we don't have standard layout/naming of dts files. >> >> We might also want to drop these: >> K: of_get_property >> K: of_match_table >> >> They are at least on the wrong maintainer list now as they should be >> associated with the binding maintainers and not DT core code if we do >> keep them. >> >> Also based on the discussion, we need to add >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/* to appropriate subsystem >> maintainers, but that should probably wait until after Friday at least. > > /me is confused. What's the procedure for the DT patches for the devices > supported by the subsystem I maintain, e. g. patches for > /drivers/media/platform? > > Should I just apply them, if I think that it is needed by the hardware? > Are there any criteria to be followed? If so, what criteria? > > /me hopes that all those questions will be discussed/answered at KS on > Friday's discussions ;) Yes, it should all become clear at the DT slot on Fri. > In any case, my suggestion is that this patch should be a way more verbose, > and should come together with a patch adding something at Documentation > (SubmittingPatches, or maybe SubmitingDTPatches) in order to be sure that > both developers and subsystem maintainers will do the right thing. A binding howto/best practices doc is planned which should help in this area. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
